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About Sukma

Sukma town is district headquarter of Sukma District that was formed only in 2012 after bifurcation from Bastar District. Sukma town in that sense is a very young town. The newly created town through has many challenges ahead has all potential to emerge as an important economically viable town of
Chhattisgarh.

About Sukma
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Administration of Sukma

Being a district headquarter the most important local administrator in Sukma town is the District Collector, followed by Chief Municipal Officer. The current District Collector of Sukma District is Niraj Kumar Bansod. He along with pool of able assistant officers has to ensure efficient supervision of development projects. In addition, Niraj Kumar Bansod and his team has to ensure law and order in the town and also in rest of the district. Coming to Chief Municipal Officer or CMO, then CMO as we all know is an executive officer appointed by respective State government. He/she executes all collective decisions taken by Mayor and elected Municipal Councilors. Currently Sukma’s Chief Municipal Officer supervises over 15 wards.

Collector & District Magistrate, Sukma
Shri. Niraj Kumar Bansod, IAS
District - Sukma
Pincode - 494111
Phone No. - (07864) 284001 (O), 284004 (R), 284002 (Fax)
E-mail : dmsukma.cg@gmail.com, sukma.cg@nic.in
Website: https://sukma.gov.in/

CEO Zila Panchayat: Mr. Maniwasgan S – 7587014507
Addl. Collector: Mr.S.R.Mahilang – 9425542785

Economy of Sukma

People of Sukma town mostly eke out their living from traditional agricultural and forest activities. Over dependency on both these traditional occupations is mainly because of huge absence of modern sectors like industrial and service sector here. Sukma’s agricultural sector is pretty productive, invariably ensuring that farmers here earn decent income. Agriculture sector here though suffers from severe lack of investment, which has compelled local farmers here depend to traditional farming means. This has severely constrained growth of agricultural sector here. Paddy crop is grown here, which has led to opening of many rice mills in and around this town. These few rice mills are in a way sole representative of this town’s minuscule industrial sector. Talking very briefly about forest industry, then this industry is too small and unorganized, but nonetheless generates decent number of employment for locals here. Besides, locals of Sukma town are also dependent on nearby forests for their household needs. They source dry woods for cooking, medical leaves/herbs etc from these local forests.

Healthcare Services in Sukma

There is literal absence of well equipped hospitals in Sukma town. And just in case if there are any, then there are very few. These few hospitals coupled with few Community Healthcare Centers (CHC) and few Primary Healthcare centers (PHC) is what constitutes healthcare services of Sukma town. To tell you about numbers of PHC and CHC operating here, then presently 1 CHC, 1 PHC and also 20 sub health centers are operating here. In a way these government run CHC, PHC and sub health centers are doing a fine job in compensating for sheer absence of hospitals here. However, they have a very limited role to play in cases of complicated operations and surgeries. Besides these CHC’s and PHC’s don’t have necessary infrastructure to cure many life threatening diseases. In such cases citizens of Sukma have no option but flock to developed and urban cities of Chhattisgarh state. Over all, Sukma’s healthcare services are completely managed by government funded infrastructure. Although all these available infrastructure are doing a pretty fine job, but lack of really well equipped hospitals is surely major bane for local patient of this town.

Community Health Center
Address: Sukma Ho, Sukma - 494111
+(91)-7864-284277, 284278, 284279

Transportation in Sukma

Being a district headquarter Sukma town obviously has pretty decent number of auto rickshaws. Although these decent number of auto rickshaws are still not good enough, but their limited presence still means world of good for Sukma’s local commuters. After all, they are the only sole caretakers of local transportation system here. As for connectivity is concerned, then National Highway No 30 passes through this town. This highway connects Sukma town to Jagdalpur town in Bastar District and also to Odisha and Andhra Pradesh states. Sukma town, however, does not have a railway station of its own. The nearest railway station is jagdalpur railway station Junction, located around 90 kms away.

Banking Services in Sukma

Considering that Sukma town has meager population of 14,000 it certainly does not need hordes of banks like huge urban cities do. And anyways the few banks that have been operational here since many decades are proving to be decent enough for this small town. This, however, does not mean that this town does not need more banks. It certainly needs few more bank branches to further improve its banking services. Hopefully this shortfall will be done away with introduction of few more banks in near future.Over all, at present Sukma’s banking services are pretty decent, if not self sufficient.

State Bank of India
Address: Sukma Ho, District Sumka- 494111
Phone no: +(91)-7864-284212, 284213 .

Chhattisgarh Gramin Bank
Address: Main Road, Sukma Ho, Sukma - 494111
Phone no: +(91)-7864-284378

Safety and Security in Sukma

Sukma District is a naxal hotbed. Various parts of district – including main city of Sukma – have witnessed several naxal attack during last one decade or so. However, despite looming threat of naxal insurgents local people prefer to live their lives very carefreely. This is mainly because naxal attacks in Sukma city occur very randomly rather than frequently. And over past few years even these random attacks have come down quite substantially, all thanks to efforts of law enforcement agencies. Apart from naxal problem, Sukma town does not face any major law and order problem as such. And just in case if any serious crime does occur, then that is taken care by Sukma’s local police station. This police station is located in the very heart of Sukma town.

Sukma Police Station: (07864) 284210

Sukma at a glance

Country : India
State : Chhattisgarh
District : Sukma district
Languages
• Official : Hindi, Chhattisgarhi
• Other : Koya, Gondi, Telugu, Savara
Time zone : IST (UTC+5:30)
Telephone code : 07864-284001
Nearest city : Jagdalpur
Lok Sabha constituency : Bastar


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